Matthew J Smetona
Biographic Data
| ID | 1339866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew J Smetona |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Smetona |
| SIGNATURE | SMETONA M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Recovering the Later Georg Lukács
New resources for the critique of capitalism in culture from the late writings of Georg Lukács, one of the first authors in the tradition of Western Marxism. The Hungarian literary critic, philosopher, and Marxist social theorist Georg Lukács is best known for his 1923 History and Class Consciousness, in which he offered an influential critique of reification from the standpoint of a dialectical conception of totality. While Lukács's early works …
"The Problem of Perspective" (1956)
On the Interrelation of Production and Reproduction
Contemporary social and political theorists generally recognise that Marx and Engels’ critical analysis of capitalist society centres on the production of value through the production of things. However, what is often unrecognised in considerations of Marx and Engels is how their analysis is based on the interrelation of production and reproduction. Nevertheless, the implications of this interrelation for feminist critique are explored in the wri…
Reification
This essay offers a defense of Lukács’s original formulation of the concept of reification (Verdinglichung), with a particular emphasis on defending the Marxist social-ontological commitments at work in that conception. An attempt will be made to demonstrate that these commitments cannot be summarily dismissed as they have been in Axel Honneth’s “rehabilitation” of the concept. Honneth’s project, it will be argued, consists in an attempt to dispe…
Hegel and the Metaphysical Frontiers of Political Theory
This outstanding book does many things. It connects an apparently disparate set of discourses and demonstrates the integrality of Hegel for an understanding of contemporary forms of philosophical and social scientific inquiry. The book begins by connecting the immediate nineteenth-century critique of Hegel to the emergence of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. The rejection of Hegel's philosophy foundational to that philosophical tradition is…
Marx's Normative Understanding of the Capitalist System
This paper challenges the contemporary Marx scholarship's emphasis on questioning whether Marx's critique of capitalism should be understood in normative terms. The emphasis on the normativity of Marx's critique of the capitalist system has obscured Marx's normative understanding of that system. Marx understands the material structures constitutive of the capitalist organization of society as based on implicit social norms that are dependent on s…
Hegel and Marx on the Spurious Infinity of Modern Civil Society
I. Introduction Hegel's political philosophy is best understood as being both moderate and critical in character. While the recent scholarship is partially correct in its “centrist-reformist” image of Hegel's political philosophy, I argue that this image is incomplete. Hegel's project in the Philosophy of Right is moderate in the respect that it is a defense of his conceptualization of the modern state—it is the attempt to make explicit the impli…
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Hegel and Marx on the Spurious Infinity of Modern Civil Society
I. Introduction Hegel's political philosophy is best understood as being both moderate and critical in character. While the recent scholarship is partially correct in its “centrist-reformist” image of Hegel's political philosophy, I argue that this image is incomplete. Hegel's project in the Philosophy of Right is moderate in the respect that it is a defense of his conceptualization of the modern state—it is the attempt to make explicit the impli…
Marx's Normative Understanding of the Capitalist System
This paper challenges the contemporary Marx scholarship's emphasis on questioning whether Marx's critique of capitalism should be understood in normative terms. The emphasis on the normativity of Marx's critique of the capitalist system has obscured Marx's normative understanding of that system. Marx understands the material structures constitutive of the capitalist organization of society as based on implicit social norms that are dependent on s…
Hegel and the Metaphysical Frontiers of Political Theory
This outstanding book does many things. It connects an apparently disparate set of discourses and demonstrates the integrality of Hegel for an understanding of contemporary forms of philosophical and social scientific inquiry. The book begins by connecting the immediate nineteenth-century critique of Hegel to the emergence of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. The rejection of Hegel's philosophy foundational to that philosophical tradition is…
On the Interrelation of Production and Reproduction
Contemporary social and political theorists generally recognise that Marx and Engels’ critical analysis of capitalist society centres on the production of value through the production of things. However, what is often unrecognised in considerations of Marx and Engels is how their analysis is based on the interrelation of production and reproduction. Nevertheless, the implications of this interrelation for feminist critique are explored in the wri…
Reification
This essay offers a defense of Lukács’s original formulation of the concept of reification (Verdinglichung), with a particular emphasis on defending the Marxist social-ontological commitments at work in that conception. An attempt will be made to demonstrate that these commitments cannot be summarily dismissed as they have been in Axel Honneth’s “rehabilitation” of the concept. Honneth’s project, it will be argued, consists in an attempt to dispe…
"The Problem of Perspective" (1956)
Recovering the Later Georg Lukács
New resources for the critique of capitalism in culture from the late writings of Georg Lukács, one of the first authors in the tradition of Western Marxism. The Hungarian literary critic, philosopher, and Marxist social theorist Georg Lukács is best known for his 1923 History and Class Consciousness, in which he offered an influential critique of reification from the standpoint of a dialectical conception of totality. While Lukács's early works …
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